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IMScart 240+ Advantages

Why Buy IMS eBusiness software?

Because, feature for feature in a single software package, this is the most powerful and flexible eBusiness Solution in its price range. 

IMScart is the only eCommerce solution on the market today for eBusiness, Hoteliers - see Voyager additional specs. and distributed channel solutions developed using ‘Distributed Co-operation’ methodology. Also check-out our IMScart Comparison.

The following are the over 240+ IMScart features and services that help you make that happen.

Easily Setup

  1. Requires just PHP version 4.1 or better and MySQL version 3.23 or better on your server.
  2. We provide telephone and email training and support which includes installation of the application files for easy integration into your website.

Shopping Cart & Storefront

  1. Currently multilingual language support, English, French and Spanish.
  2. Change languages in real-time while shopping
  3. language of your choice for administration
  4. Utilizes unique shared language product description database
  5. Unlimited Products
  6. Unlimited Categories
  7. Web based administration for updating contents and structure of store
  8. Display products in thumbnail and full size
  9. Automated browse-mode thumbnails - When customers are browsing your catalog by category, show a little thumbnail image of the product for quick visual reference?
  10. Built-in Newsletter
  11. Shoppers can join newsletter - Keep everyone on your mailing list informed!
  12. Shoppers can view order status

Category Management

  1. list/edit/add/delete categories
  2. create unlimited categories and sub-categories
  3. set detail page, publish or not, list order, properties,
  4. name, short description, long description for each active language
  5. upload category image

Product Management

  1. list/edit/add/delete products
  2. view inventory (if enabled)
  3. automatically keeps track of how many items you have in stock
  4. enter SKU, an outside URL if desired, category
  5. set discounts, on special, display order, publish or not
  6. set detail page, publish or not, list order, properties,
  7. name, short description, long description for each active language
  8. upload category, product images and store images, thumbnail for browse page, full image for detail page via web browser
  9. list/edit/add/delete prices by shopper group        
  10. list/edit/add/delete attributes
  11. attributes apply to products and show up as options to the user
  12. set different prices, attributes for each item based on one product
  13. Multilevel discounts by group, by individual and more can be created
  14. list/edit/add/delete properties
  15. properties apply to categories and show up as options to the user
  16. properties do not effect price Unlimited Modifiers (properties)
  17. Customized standard shipping based on cost, weight and other advanced features.
  18. UPS, USPS and other shipping modules available
  19. Multi-shippers
  20. Password protected wholesale customer area (Wholesale cart)
  21. Multi-level discount levels, dealer pricing (Wholesale cart)
  22. Allow both retail and wholesale customers to order (Wholesale cart)
  23. Reach wholesale and retail customers with different pricing and product options (Wholesale cart)
  24. Add any number of Modifiers to a product, and only enter your products once!

Automatic inventory indexing and sorting

  1. Customers can browse your products by category, search by keyword
  2. Track inventory levels for all the products in the store.

Built-in Search Engine

  1. Give your customers the added benefit of finding the product they want without having to navigate or browse your entire catalog!
  2. Search the entire database for matches by name, descriptive text, SKU, etc.
  3. Search by category and sub-category - use links to narrow down search, choose product for detail page

Unlimited images per product & Previewing

  1. Individual modifiers can have their own image, and your customers can Preview that modified product on-the-fly. ie: Preview a blue dress, Preview a yellow dress, Preview a large blue dress, Preview a golf club with a UST yellow shaft or preview a golf club with a steel shaft.

Customer information is stored in database

  1. After the first order the shopping cart does not require customer to re-enter their information at subsequent orders
  2. The shopping cart allows users to edit their personal information on file.
  3. Orders history - The shopping cart allows user to browse a history of their previous orders
  4. Real time display of order totals

Multi-tiered Pricing

  1. Able to display multiple prices per product, depending on shopper group of logged in shopper
  2. Able to assign customer groups with differentiated pricing.
  3. Wholesalers support is also included.
  4. By modifier, this golf club is one price, with a different shaft selection price is different.

Save Cart Contents

  1. The cart information is gathered from form fields and stored in the database as a session.
  2. The session number is stored as a cookie.
  3. If customer not using cookies they have our Digital Cart Parking as an option to save cart contents for up to 30 days.

Full SSL Security

  1. With an SSL Key installed, IMScart can take full advantage of SSL encryption. No more hacked credit card numbers!

Database Security

  1. Secure your customers data via a password protected database,

Simplified Checkout
Why bother your customers with lengthy Checkout procedures?

  1. Pre-filled Customer Info: If your customer is returning, then the cart will automatically fill out all their Billing & Shipping info for them!
  2. Bill/Ship Enabled; If the customers Shipping Info will be the same as their Billing Info, then a box can be checked, and when it is, the Shipping Info section will completely disappear from the screen. Less fields on Checkout result in site "stickiness" and customer retention.
  3. Automatic weight detection; If the cart sees that you are only buying downloadable or printable (digital) goods, then your customers will never be presented with any Shipping info. The shorter your Checkout page is the better!
  4. Customizable zone based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)
  5. Digital Cart Parking® (DCP) Allows customers to store shopping cart contents for up to 30 days before purchase
  6. DCP is complete with log-on reminder.
  7. Real time display of tax and shipping on cart selections

Real-time Shipping

  1. Your website Checkout page will actually communicate with the shippers' servers over the Internet, in real-time, to bring in accurate rates based on:
  2. zip codes
  3. geographical location
  4. quantity
  5. shipment weights

United Parcel Service (UPS)

  1. Real-time UPS shipping rates and tracking; No more guessing about how much to charge for shipping! With UPS OnLine® Tools Rates and Service Selection, your customers see real-time UPS rates at Checkout and get to choose which service and price best meet their needs.
  2. UPS OnLine® Tools uses cutting edge XML technology to deliver shipping rates lightning fast. All you need to do is register with UPS to use this free service. You can even use your Intranet to do it! No hassle, no worries, no Checkout delays, just accurate UPS shipping costs that will make you and your customers happy.
  3. 2nd Day Air®
  4. 2nd Day Air AM®
  5. Ground®
  6. Worldwide ExpeditedSM
  7. Worldwide StandardSM
  8. Express Saver®

United States Postal Service (USPS)

  1. Global Express Guaranteed
  2. Global Express Mail (EMS)
  3. Airmail Parcel Post
  4. Economy (Surface) Parcel Post
  5. Priority
  6. Express Shipping
  7. Media Mail
  8. Parcel Post
  9. Bound Printed Matter
  10. Library Mail

Flat-rate Shipping
Have an item that you want to apply a flat rate too? We have flat rate based on:

  1. first item
  2. per additional item
  3. and on shipper.

Real-time Tax Calculation

  1. By State
  2. by Province
  3. by Country.
  4. The Taxes section allows you to collect, or not collect tax, based on location and set the rate (percent %) for each.

Real-time Payment Processing

  1. Accept and authorize credit cards, offline manual payments

Banking Gateways

This is what connects your bank merchant account to your website in real-time.

  1. Authorizenet
  2. Psigate
  3. EFTnet
  4. Accesspoint
  5. BluePay
  6. Linkpoint
  7. PayPal
  8. And others, etc.

Invoicing/Receipt

  1. Now that your customer has made it through Checkout, they will reach a very nice looking Receipt (invoice) page that can be printed and saved.
  2. Successful Payment; Shipments are automatically queued up for the day for processing.
  3. Un-successful Payment; Order not completed. Cart can be saved using ‘Digital Cart Parking’ until payment can be made.

Order Processing

What exactly happens now that an order has been placed?

  1. Automated emails – PHP mail supported or set other SMPT host. Included PHPmailer class has many options.

Upon completion of an order, the following emails are automatically sent

  1. Order details can be automatically emailed to your sales manager, warehouse, etc notifying them of the order.
  2. Customer is emailed.
  3. Customer Thank You; Your customer is thanked for their order, and hyperlinks are provided for access to your Extranet, order details, order tracking, etc.
  4. Sometimes you may wish for your vendor or a third party to get notification of the order as well.

Automatic database entry;

  1. All acquired customer and order information is logged to your database for immediate customer Extranet access, and internal use in your Intranet.

Admin Orders Editor;

  1. View an order
  2. edit an order
  3. mark it as shipped
  4. mark it as awaiting payment
  5. assign a new tracking number to an individual item within an order, you name it.
  6. Customers are automatically emailed too, as soon as their order, or an item within their order is marked as shipped, or you change its status. Your customers are always informed!  

Web-based Intranet Product Administration

This is the internal Admin Console, used to configure/manage your entire site. Anytime, anywhere, as long as you have access to the Internet, you have access to your Intranet.

The Product Administrator allows you to create

  1. create new products
  2. product categories
  3. edit product attributes
  4. and add product items for each attribute value.

Product Administration

Here you can administer your online catalog of products. The Product Administrator allows you to create:

  1. product categories
  2. create new products
  3. edit product attributes
  4. and add product items for each attribute value.

Inventory Control Center

Edit such things as:

  1. SKU/Serial#
  2. Item/Product Name
  3. Manage inventory product-by-product
  4. Product Description; HTML tags OK!
  5. Category selection;
  6. Thumbnail and large image selection; Web-based file upload also supported.. FTP not needed.
  7. Weight; Lbs and Kgs are supported!
  8. Package Dimensions; Length, Width, and Height fields. Not required.
  9. Quantity In Stock (QIS); Editable. ie: We have 3 Steel shaft Model xyz Titanium Drivers, and 4 with Graphite shafts in stock. However, the XYZ driver itself, would be 1 inventory item, but with numerous properties applied to it. Why enter the same item more than once?
  10. Flat-rate Shipping charge, if any
  11. Taxable Item; set for cart
  12. Sale Item & Discount Percentage (%). Amount and percentage
  13. Show It, Enable/Disable; Enter the products into your inventory/database, but show, or not show, the item on your website.
  14. Show to select shopper groups

Orders Editor

  1. Search by any number of fields for one or more orders, then click on the one you want from the following results screen, to access it.
  2. update the order status
  3. select the shipper and service used
  4. enter/edit a tracking number

Reports
A number of reports plus we can easily customize reports for your specific requirements.

  1. Update! - Show orders canceled or invalid; Show a sort-able list of all of the orders that did not clear for some reason or other, ie: Card/AVS declined, order canceled, product returned, etc.

Shipping Editor
 Configure which Shippers/Carriers you support

  1. custom shipping by Shipper
  2. Flat rate for item/additional item
  3. or use ‘Live Quote’ for UPS or USPS

Newsletter Editor

  1. Edit or delete existing emails (someone may want you to unsubscribe them manually), plus a single-screen interface for composing and sending out your newsletter.
  2. Text-only and HTML emails are both supported.
  3. Send your newsletter to literally thousands of people at once

Affiliate Manager

  1. Edit, check, modify, pay, etc affiliates.
  2. Set up banners, text messages and logos your affiliates will use, etc.

Integrate an existing site
 If you already have a website, and just wish to expand it with IMScart features, this option is for you. Only two steps are required to complete this process:

  1. Copy/paste: Just take your existing template, divide it into Header, Menus and Footer and paste into our ‘Edit pages’ editor.

Web-based Administration
This is your external customer access point. Customers login, and use this to..:

  1. Track an Order
    Real-time order and item tracking included.
  2. Check Order Status
    Accessing an order placed will also reveal its status, such as "Awaiting Payment", "Completed", etc.
  3. Check Order History
    At any time, your customers may view their past orders from your Extranet.
  4. Edit their eAccount
    Customers may edit any of their info at any time.

IMScart Voyager – Hotel Reservation Section
 The following adds real time Hotel Reservation capability to the IMScart foundation technology above.

  1. list/edit/add/delete hotels
  2. set parent hotel, publish or not, hotel fly-page, additional person charge, list order, commissions, hotel owner, destination category.
  3. name, short description, long description for each active language
  4. upload images
  5. list/edit/add/delete rooms
  6. enter SKU, hotel, display order, publish or not,
  7. maximum number of these rooms,
  8. name, short description, long description for each active language
  9. upload images
  10. set default prices for rooms
  11. create and view inventory
  12. option to update only particular rooms, blocks of rooms,
  13. different prices, number of rooms,
  14. between certain dates.
  15. view by month or several months
  16. edit individual nights for pricing, availability
  17. list/edit/add/delete global properties
  18. properties apply to all rooms and show up as options to the user
  19. properties do not effect price
  20. list/edit/add/delete destinations
  21. group hotels according to destination city or region

Tour System

  1. list/edit/add/delete tours categories and sub-categories
  2. set parent category, publish or not, list order, short name to attach to SKU
  3. name, short description, long description for each active language
  4. list/edit/add/delete tours
  5. enter SKU, category, display order, discount, special, publish or not,
  6. assign a destination category and tour type category
  7. add multiple start times for the tour
  8. optional flags for charter, body weights needed, length of tour, season start and end
  9. days of the week available.
  10. name, short description, long description for each active language
  11. upload images
  12. set prices for tours
  13. list/edit/add/delete tour types
  14. create categories of tour types that can be added to the SKU
  15. list/edit/add/delete destinations
  16. create categories of tour destinations that can be added to the SKU

Multi Hotel Reservation System

  1. Before making a booking view property's marketing materials, including text and pictures
  2. Inquire on availability and prices for specific dates
  3. add multiple hotels and even sub-categories of Hotels (ex: one hotel with four properties)
  4. Set global properties, that don't affect price, for all hotels to give customers multiple choices. (ex: "Smoking/Non Smoking", "Single Bed/Double/King")

Create standard rooms or:

  1. set pricing based on buyer group (regular, best clients, travel agent, etc)
  2. set pricing based on date
  3. create an "inventory" of rooms based on availability per room per date

Book rooms from your inventory

  1. View the current inventory and adjust it as you like
  2. view lists of booking and individual orders
  3. Customers can see views based on all hotels and individual hotels
  4. Customers choose dates to check for availability then book online

Site users are presented with a number of features when booking on-line:

  1. Various methods of payment, either online or offline
  2. Verify the booking with a "secure" transaction by credit card
  3. Auto-generated confirmation e-mails, with reservation numbers, from hotel to guest and from guest to hotel
  4. Corporate rates, accessible to your Corporate Clients with user name and password
  5. Wholesale contract rates, accessible to your wholesale tour operators and travel agents with user name and password
  6. This application also offers the Hotel Staff a number of features for easy data entry:
    Room rates and allocations are controlled by the hotel, 24 hours per day
  7. Modify the facilities offered by the hotel.
  8. Can handle multiple taxes
  9. Hotel owners can login to view their own orders184a. Can handle multiple taxes
  10. Hotel owners can set their own inventory

Tour Desk Module

  1. Route plan printing of customer names, tour and pick-up points

  2. Before making a booking view Tours marketing materials, including text and pictures

  3. create categories and sub categories of tours
  4. add tour types and destination points
  5. set options such as season start/end
  6. tour start time and length of tour
  7. availability by day
  8. create standard tours or:
  9. set pricing based on buyer group (regular, best clients, travel agent, etc)
  10. Statistics including the number of availability checks
     

Affiliate Sales Module

  1. Complete affiliate program based on Pay per Sale
  2. Unlimited affiliates
  3. Search functions in the Administration area
  4. Display the logs of the partners
  5. Easy to change commission size/percentage
  6. Affiliate listing and removing functions
  7. Confirmation email to affiliate and admin when new account is created
  8. Instant HTML banner and text link code generation
  9. Statistics page for affiliates to see account status